The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-22

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ly fine and the lite watch very valu-
able. Among the articles formerly
belonging to Isabella is q collection
Of different colored diamonds. There
are black and tan diamonds, amber
colored, pink, sanguinary red ones
almost like rubys, gray ones aud the
famous violet pair. The old | dy
had a great fancy for jewelry. A:
many as a dozen sets of different
jeweled settings are in the hands Of
this firm for sale.
| sometimes question if the sewing
machine has been as great a boom to
women as has been popularity sup
posed. Those women who get their
living by sewing earned just as much
in the old times, for they got 81 for
making chemise that took a couple
OF days to build, where now q woman
rattles off ten of them at 10 cents
apiece. There is no question but
the exerhon of running a sewing ma
chine long enough to make ten shirts
does greater harm than the old time
confinement necessary to make one
by hand. But the great evil wrought
by this labor saving invention is to
the pleasant industry making ones
own underclothes gave TO wom-
en-. No girl will sit down
and by adding one little stitch to an
other construct a garment, she can
60 forth and buy at a smaller outlay
than the material would cost. There
are simple, primitive little places
very near our doors where the fads
and follies Of the great city are I'M
known, and | struck one up in the
wilds of Connecticut. They were an
important lot, and Their heartily en-
joyed pleasures contrasted strangely
with some elaborate and tedious
carnivals that New York has tried
hard to think successful and enter
tanning, during that very same sea-
son. The town is named after fam
lily that seems to own it body and
boots. Well call it Samuelsville.
Old pa Samuels kept sort of hotel
boarding house; Jim Samuels ran
the village store; Sam Samuels was
the doctor for man and beast,
and Siah Samuels was justice
of the peace, undertaken, peddled out
such law as the stood in need of, and
read a burial service of composite
character that suited all religious
convictions, when any resident of
Samuelsville died. Sweet, simply
community. l had a rousing good
time among them. Some of the Sam
uels had factories for making sail
cloth and canvas. Others had yarn
and thread mills. Nightly, when they
knocked off work, looms were rolled
out of the way and pleasant little
dances finished the evening. The old
folks came to these gatherings with
lanterns, and Juggling their own chairs
to sit upon.
One of the prettiest of the Samuels
girls was going to be married, and
she showed me her outfit. The truth
forced itself on me that the sewing
machine was not so great a blessing.
All her garments were made by hand.
The lace was hand knitted and the
embroidery was home work. The
things were pretty, and the hOppings of
the girl who had made them far sur.
passed the pride of Gotham belle in
an imported trousseau. How many
days OF quiet, satisfying happiness
they represented; how many even
ings TRANQUILITY full of joyous expec-
tations desired her fashionable sis
tiers has been hers. / tell you we
miss a great deal in not making our
own night gowns and hemming our
own petticoats.
Mrs. Siah Samuels was piety itself
and the only discontinued paper in
the bundle. There was no regular
house in Samuelsville, and
since some young minister "cut up"
there, no regular preacher. Mrs. |
Siah was bitterly opposed to show
people folks, who were warmly well
coined by all the other Samuels But |
n Mrs. Samuels's parlor were some
funny things that joking show peo-
pie had bestowed upon her. A great
many years ago when Booth was in
he glory of his first Hamlet"
'un, a bust of the actor
vas put on the town as those
If Dixey and RAYMOND have been
ately. A crown OF laurels rests upon
he bowed head of the then good
tragedian, and an expression
IT intense woe pervades his counte-
lance. One of these busts decorates
Mrs. Slabs mantel. 1t is mounted
IN block covered with perforated
,aper, on which are worked flowers,
nd directly.in front of the letters 81.
1. S. were carefully down in mark
ng stitch. The old lady had made
great mistake there. So when l
aw one Of John McCullough's big
photographs in the character of Leah,
asked with a sober face who that
Tas? Moses the law giver," she
replied. l went home and
ent her large picture of Bernhardt
nth word that it was that famous
Ioman, Sarah" She has gathered
II Samuelsville about her and told
hem that this woman had a child
Vhen she was hundred and fifty;
nd she wrote to me that the poor
reature had her troubles. There
Ias a good deal in Abraham, no
Oubt, that she didn't feel satisfied
18th, and the prospect of sleeping in
| braham's bosom had never seemed
} her as pleasant as turn up bead
5ead. CLARA BELLE.
BILLY AND THE MARQUIS.